Meep Meep Podcast Ryan Rainbro

HERE MEEP DRAGONS

In 1998, southeast road dogs Jupiter Coyote released their 5th album but first on Roadrunner called "Here Be Dragons" - Coyote with Roadrunner seems like a match made in Acme Acres! But an anvil wasn't tha only thing to drop.

Band frontman Matt Mayes tells us about starting their own label, helping Sister Hazel start their career, getting a timely guest spot from Edwin McCain, tha songs on tha album, and heartbreak of being an Atlanta Hawks fan.

ROLL WITH IT!

STAR STAR MEEP MEEP

On this episode we're going back to NINETEEN NINETY TWO with an album that pre-dates all of tha false cries that Roadrunner had suddenly moved away from their metal roots.

You see, tha same year that RR would release THE END COMPLETE by Obituary, LEGION by Deicide, and SOUL of a NEW MACHINE by Fear Factory among plenty more examples they would also put out an album by a band called STAR STAR entitled tha LOVE DRAG YEARS and Star Star was many things but... decidedly not death metal.

What many may not realize is Roadrunner never wanted to be a death metal boutique label and from tha very beginning they were trying out various things searching for great bands that could sell records. 
 
So enter Star Star, a 90s band with an 80s sound influenced by the 70s. The Love Drag Years was full of catchy anthems that would have fit in with the sleaze of Motley Crue more than the sludge of Suffocation.

The formation of this band and making of this album is a pretty wild ride but luckily we had a guide in frontman and main member Johnnie Holiday, who takes us from New York to LA and back again...

MEEP THEM SUFFER

On this episode we celebrate a milestone or in this case...
a kilometerstone because we're dicussing 10 years of Australia's Make Them Suffer releasing their debut full length album NEVERBLOOM on Roadrunner Records.

Make Them Suffer's story of landing on the big bird is a unique one as they were potentially the only successful use of a system used at the time called SIGN ME TO ROADRUNNER which was a website unsigned bands would upload their demos to in hopes of getting a record deal!

Vocalist Sean Harmanis takes us through the band's origins and their process through making this album, the local scene they experienced in Perth, Studio Ghibli movies influencing his writing process, the use of keyboards in their songs, their first tour being exclusively by public transportation, and the natural evolution of their sound to the MTS of today. 

And if you love this album already or are psyched to jam it after hearing it's biography, it has recently been remastered and re-issued on streaming platforms everywhere and on vinyl for tha first time through Greyscale Records!...in full color.

2022 is tha 10 year anniversary of Shinedown's album "Amaryllis" released in all territories outside of tha USA on Roadrunner Records. 
Amaryllis had tha pressure of following tha biggest Shinedown release to that point, SOUND OF MADNESS, and also was on a new label home of Roadrunner.

It produced some of tha best received songs in tha band's live catalog and seems to have grown fonder in their fan's eyes through time, but not without plenty of hurdles to get it there!

Brent Smith of Shinedown takes us through a journey of getting to this album, making it, and all tha lessons along tha way! 

THEY DREW FIRST BLOOD NOT FRIGGIN' MEEP. ⁣
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New for Mega Meepsters is a look at First Blood's debut LP, "KILLAFORNIA" and is that a cool name for an album?⁣
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Lead blood tracer himself Carl Schwartz tells us what he thinks plus tha early formation of FB, inspirations musically & lyrically, as well as his connection to tha Roadrunner catalog!⁣

Brother's Meeper.
LIVING WITH A POD COMPLEX ⁣
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Exploring albums on Trustkill Records ̶d̶i̶s̶t̶r̶i̶b̶u̶t̶e̶d̶ by [former employees of] Roadrunner.⁣
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BROTHER'S KEEPER released their final LP "Fantasy Killer" in 2001 produced by Brian McTernan with songwriting by Stretch Arm Strong, vocals by Mike DC, and artwork by Shepard Fairey! ⁣
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Mike Ski of Bros Keep designed for Blue Grape / RR which you may remember from our EARTH CRISIS episode but this time he tells us about writing one of my favorite hardcore albums and tha legacy of these Erie PA Pioneers.⁣
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